This is actually from 2022, but I missed it back in the day. This is quite important research imo, and very relevant lately. Link to the paper itself: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563222001637

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

See, I hear 'fantasy' and think of orks and fairies and shit, but I can think of many non-fantasy movies that have incredibly unrealistic aspects.

Like, idk, James Bond's gizmos are completely unrealistic and break the laws of physics, but it's not fantasy to me.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'd argue James bond as a franchise is basically a hypermasculine fantasy and the gadgets are pretty much a tech fantasy within it. Breaking laws of physics is completely unrealistic, but the point I was making was that you don't need to do any of these things- you could write a story about how you went to the gym and broke a treadmill (even though you didn't) and it would be fiction. The bar to fiction is not that high.

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